Batesmotel Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 On 4/12/2024 at 5:30 PM, pipedreams said: Understand they would stand around like that and when a drunk came out they would talk them into signing on the dotted line and they woke up in uniform. Royal Navy press gangs were even worse. They would just chase drunks out of the jails and onto the docks. Then force them onto a ship. Once on the ship, you were just in the navy. But the nave did provide a daily ration of rum. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 USA Le pont mobile de Chicago, Merchandise Mart (1951) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fog Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 On 4/15/2024 at 6:09 AM, pipedreams said: USA Le pont mobile de Chicago, Merchandise Mart (1951) It's steep, but with enough horsepower and a few modifications a guy could still get across. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 9 minutes ago, Fog said: It's steep, but with enough horsepower and a few modifications a guy could still get across. Where there is a will, there is fun! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 14 hours ago, Fog said: It's steep, but with enough horsepower and a few modifications a guy could still get across. Problem would be the transition from street to bridge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Just now, railfancwb said: Problem would be the transition from street to bridge. It's nothing more than an instantaneous rotation of a large mass about a single point in space. Easy, Huh.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 UPDATE: I WAS FOOLED ! Okay, for some reason when I searched for the Pickering Brook Heritage website the other day, I didn't see this link. https://pickeringbrookheritagegroup.com.au/sawmills/steam-powered-whim-model/ Many more pictures and it turns out that the bottom picture is a model built by a man, Loek Proper, who wrote in to the PBH website who has built replicas of other lumber hauling machinery. If you search "van De Puffende Schoorsteen" - (The Puffing Chimney) or Loek Proper - you will pull up many of his videos of old logging equipment and YouTube videos. Australian Steam Powered Whim. Only 4 ever made. The steam Whim was designed to collect and deliver trees into a sawmill. It is believed they could lift 19 tons of timber. The crew of a steam whim consisted of a driver, a fireman to operate the whim, and a faller and swamper on the ground to prepare and attach the logs for carrying. Is this where the saying “I did it on a whim” came from? (Joking) The last restored one was originally found on the Pickering Brook Heritage website which I could not find. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Avenue des Champs-Élysées 1956. Paris 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 East Harlem NY, 1932. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 On 4/19/2024 at 7:44 AM, Schmidt Meister said: Australian Steam Powered Whim. Only 4 ever made. The steam Whim was designed to collect and deliver trees into a sawmill. It is believed they could lift 19 tons of timber. The crew of a steam whim consisted of a driver, a fireman to operate the whim, and a faller and swamper on the ground to prepare and attach the logs for carrying. Is this where the saying “I did it on a whim” came from? (Joking) The last restored one was originally found on the Pickering Brook Heritage website which I could not find. A successor? 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 27 minutes ago, railfancwb said: A successor? Please see my update on my original post for multiple corrections. I don't see that either of these machines would have had a very long life span because at that time advances were being made at a rapid pace, but they were impressive machines that made life incredibly less labor intensive. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 Waiting room Pennsylvania Railway Station, June 12, 1935. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 Hanging out at the record store, 1957. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 On 4/21/2024 at 3:50 AM, Schmidt Meister said: Please see my update on my original post for multiple corrections. I don't see that either of these machines would have had a very long life span because at that time advances were being made at a rapid pace, but they were impressive machines that made life incredibly less labor intensive. Thanks. The black & white photo I posted was something I found on the web, as was the high riding pickup photo. The two orange (yellow?) photos I took at Southern Forest Heritage Museum in September 2015. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DAKA Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 On 4/22/2024 at 2:30 PM, pipedreams said: Waiting room Pennsylvania Railway Station, June 12, 1935. Gone... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 1 hour ago, DAKA said: Gone... I remember as a kid, sitting in the Railroad station in downtown Minneapolis for the Zephyr to take my family to Chicago to visit relatives in New Lenox. My father believed we deserved it as an "experience". I still remember sitting by the window flying down the track over what looked like frozen swamp full of water. We flew straight to the water, you couldn't see the left turn of the track and at the last moment we turned instead of going into the water. It was hair raising at time. A wonderful experience over all. A few years ago I took my wife on a Zephyr dinner ride by a restoration group. She had a wonderful time, it was her first time on a train. Anniversary event. My wife's family was poor and she had little to no experiences for memories. She had never been out of her hometown till I dated her and when I heard this, I took her for an evening ride to our state's capitol city and drove around so she could see everything. When I traveled for work, I took her along as much as I could afford. She saw much of the United States and even had dinner on top of a 5,000 foot mountain in a little restaurant. I tried to give her the memories my dad had given us. She was like a little kid experiencing the carnival when I was in meetings in Seattle and she went to the space needle by herself. later we toured Pike's Market. I tried to make up for all she had missed while growing up. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Florence, Alabama, 1942. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Joinville-le-Pont, France 1947 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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